2005 Results
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Latest News - 21st Aug 2005
It just gets busier and busier!

Greenlight TV have confirmed they will be attending the event to film the days action for a series of programs on drifting and the evening Cruise Sport event.

Streetlife TV have confirmed their attendance covering the event for a new DVD release.

Autocar magazine are now coming along to drive a few of the tuner entries, enter their own team and cover the event - the first time such an event has been covered by them.

EVO magazine now seem to be bringing two teams!

Lotus Cars have asked to enter their latest Elise track car - the 240R, as a full factory entry we're delighted and in response Vauxhall are going to enter their VX220 Sprint car for the hell of it.

We have new entries from companies such as Norris Designs, Sanspeed and Hartge (with their One Series BMW with a V8 in it!) in all we have almost 40 separate tuner entries to the GP, Drag Strip and Drift Challenge events.

The evening Cruise Event is hotting up with almost every car club entering cars into the RWYB night dragstrip event.

We're now running a competition with Autocar to win VIP tickets to the event so check out their website for details.

This is going to be one BIG event!

Superchips Sponsors Drag Strip Challenge
"We're delighted to announce that Superchips, the UK's largest, leading car engine software developer are to sponsor the Drag Strip Challenge at the Milltek Sport Car Tuner Grand Prix. In the Superchips Drag Strip Challenge the main straight at Donington Park is turned into a custom drag strip. Using MSA approved timing equipment competitors are timed for the 1/4 mile, 0-60mph and 0-100mph before braking for Redgate corner - it will be spectacular!

A £1000 first prize awaits the fastest 1/4 mile time attained.

We're also delighted to announce the Superchips Drag Strip Club Car Challenge. The UK's leading car enthusiast clubs are all invited to enter their 'best members car'. Want to know who has the fastest Scooby or best Elise? Then fight it out amongst yourselves to pick the best in the club and enter the Superchips Drag Strip Challenge. There is a small entry fee to cover insurance costs for the event (£25) which gives you three runs up the strip to get the best time and the chance to win the £250 first prize and of course the bragging rights of fastest club car at the Milltek Sport Car Tuner Grand Prix."


12th July 2005
Its been a busy few months but we're excited to announce that we now have 28 teams confirmed as entered into the GP with vehicles as varied from the Mazda MX5 to Porsche GT3's. Almost all car marques are represented in almost every classification, we have entries from UK, Germany and Ireland.

As well as the tuner firms entered into the Drift Challenge we have also the UK's top 25 drift specialists going head to head with the tuning firms best so the Drift Challenge is shaping out to be a real 'best of the best'

Superchips have announced their sponsorship of the Drag Strip Challenge and we're pleased to announce £1000 cash prizes for the winners of each event - GP, Drift Challenge and the Drag Strip Challenge.

Along with our media partnership with Unity Media Plc we're now in negotiation with 3 different TV companies for coverage of the event itself for three different channels. EVO Magazine have entered a team and Top Gear are mulling over the idea as well, all we need is Car Magazine to come along and we can have a head to head to show who's the quickest of the mainstream car journalists!

The Trade Village is rapidly selling out of space and we look to have filled the inner and outer paddocks with trade stands from such companies as Oz, Toyo Tyres, Turbo Dynamics and Track Club. Centre stage for the Trade Village is the massive screen TV which will show live action from the circuit and live track times of all the entrants in the GP and Drag Strip.

In the outer paddock we are delighted to pay host to the Drift Academy where anyone can try their hand at drifting themselves in one of their custom prepared MX5's. The really good news is that the best participant from the crowd will get a wildcard entry into the Drift Challenge final!

We've been inundated with applications from car clubs and have over 30 wishing to attend and reserve space in the exclusive infield area - the entire infield (which offers some of the best views of the circuit) is exclusively reserved for car club parking with allocated areas for everyone. Everyone from the Vauxhall Sports Car Club to the Subaru Impreza Drivers Club are coming in force, some with over 500 cars expected!

Vauxhall VXR will have the new Astra VXR on show along with the mighty Monaro VXR (of which there are 2 entered into the GP, Drag Strip and Drift Challenge events) being driven by some celebrities. There will be passenger laps on offer in the VXR's throughout the day.

Milltek Sport will have their entire range of sports exhausts on display including the new VXR range for the Astra, Monaro, Vectra and Zafira as well as their new systems for the Porsche 997, BMW E36 M3, the Audi S4 V8 and the Golf Mk 5 which will also be giving passenger rides round the circuit.

The evening activities are shaping up to be the largest Cruise event the UK has ever seen. In association with our cruise partners Cruise Sport, in the evening the drag strip is opened up as a RWYB event, so see if you can beat the times from the professionals, most of whom will be sticking around in the evening to let their hair down after the days competition. As well as the drag strip there will be the usual ICE displays, competitions and trade stands.

Finally we brought the Max Power Live Show at the NEC to a stand still with our joint stand with Cruise Sport. Response to the event (and the 8 scantily clad girls on the stand) was overwhelming so we've increased the ticket print run to 15,000.

Without shadow of a doubt the Car Tuner Grand Prix will be the largest car tuner event the UK has ever seen, be a part of it.



Tuner GP Team Hits Max Power Live
We're not sure if they know what hit them!

Great show, great attendance and great fun. We teamed up again with the guys from Cruise Sport to promote the TGP event and to say we were well received is an understatement!

The response from the public was huge and we gave out almost 10,000 leaflets promoting the event (some of which may even have been read) but having the charms of Anya, Tori, Paige, Louise etc may have had something to do with it!

The evening Cruise is shaping up to be huge. Organised cruises from every region in the UK are being planned to converge on Donington Park during the day and when the days competition draws to a close the circuit is opened up for the public to have a chance to drive the drag strip. The doors won't shut until midnight so it looks to be a long day of fun.

See the full photo set here